[2ndDivisionVet]

That sounds like we just got our marching orders.

[stephenjohnbanker]

It certainly does.

[BlessedBeGod]

Yikes! He stole my tagline!

[Zuben Elgenubi]

I’m thinking that Cruz starts speaking Spanish and the liberal heads explode.

[caprock]

Too bad ‘ol Mitchy Mac isn’t even 1/1,000,000th as tough on dumbocrats as he was on his Republican primary election opponents last Fall.

[goodnesswins]

WSJ says.....“Mr. Cruz’s challenge will be showing that his polarizing style is a better bet than the conservative governing success that many of the others [in the GOP presidential field] have already had.

SUCCESS by GOP???? They have defined success DOWN....and now the WSJ is merely the mouthpiece of the one world corporatists. Let's CRUZ!!!!

[TexasCajun]

Charles Krauthammer recently told Ted Baxter that as President, he would have swapped Bergdahl for the 5 Gitmo terrorist.

[sickoflibs]

Sounds like Grahanesty is running too, that complicates things.

[SoConPubbie]

Ted Cruz Ping!

If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.

Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!

CRUZ or LOSE!

CRUZ or LOSE!

[KC_Lion]

It's the Tea Party V.S. The Uniparty.

Which has always been the real battle hasn't it?

[Jim Noble]

If the party appeals to only white, Christian conservatives, it will wind up as a regional party, capable of winning Senate and House seats but incapable of winning a national election

That is possible, but the long-suffering socons deserve their shot to prove it false.

[Finny]

It's striking that the debate is framed in terms of "Christian conservative right" versus "the middle" and the left, as if Americans who want less government but who don't identify as "Christian conservative," don't exist.

You posted an interesting item yesterday where the author pointed out how many more self-declared Independents there are now than ever before, polled at 42 percent! The writer wrongly assumed that those Independents were the same as "middle of the road" voters, and so the Republican party had to take that tack to catch them. I think it's the same here -- the writer assumes that anyone NOT self-identifying as a Christian conservative is either moderate or to the left, and that's the tack to get them.

The reality is that a very large number of Americans are on the opposite side of the road as Democrat/Republican strategies. A very large number of Americans only want one thing: LESS government, LESS nanny state, LESS tyranny, MORE freedom, MORE independence, MORE autonomy from government. A large number of Americans resent the overburden of government Democrats and Republicans are building constantly, and they want to vote for the party, the candidate, the concept, that says, "SMALLER, less government!"

That the guy who is calling for it, Cruz (I hope and trust, anyway), happens to also be an avowed Christian, is so much the better. His being a Republican is as much a liability as it is a benefit.

That there is even this divide IN the Republican party to such a degree, shows that it is defunct.

[Hot Tabasco]

it is Republicans who sharpen their knives and slice each other up when the White House is at stake.

I'd love to see articles like this about the Democrat party............

Ain't gonna happen because the MSM knows how to tweak the purists of the political right into eating themselves.......

[goodnesswins]

WSJ says.....“Mr. Cruz’s challenge will be showing that his polarizing style is a better bet than the conservative governing success that many of the others [in the GOP presidential field] have already had.

SUCCESS by GOP???? They have defined success DOWN....and now the WSJ is merely the mouthpiece of the one world corporatists. Let's CRUZ!!!!

[ifinnegan]

“The blood is in the water. The game is afoot. And the Republicans are brawling.”

Politico’s Chief Political Columnist writes like a pulp hack from the 30’s.

[libbylu]

Last day of quarter, gonna make another contribution. I wish they would do money bombs.

[Will88]

If the party appeals to only white, Christian conservatives, it will wind up as a regional party, capable of winning Senate and House seats but incapable of winning a national election.

And how does a candidate apeal only to white, Christian conservatives? That's a dumb, self-serving statement. Any Republican candidate for president must address a broad range of issues, and then the voters who are open to either candidate will assess the overall positions of the two major party candidates.

The GOPe amd many commentators just can't get away from the idea that a candidate must appeal to narrow interest groups, a bone for this one and a bone for that one.

[marron]

If the party appeals to only white, Christian conservatives, it will wind up as a regional party, capable of winning Senate and House seats but incapable of winning a national election.

And if GOP drives out its Christians, they won't win the election for dog-catcher. And won't deserve to, either.

Try and remember the last time a party drove out its Christians. Its happened twice. One became a ghost and the other a cancer.

Whigs, and Democrats.

[Hugin]

To hear this guy tell it, the only conservatives in America are “the religious right”. They are an important part to be sure, but hardly all. There are plenty of people in this country who are not particularly religious but still hold conservative values.

[ansel12]

since Ronald Reagan. (And he wasn’t religious personally.)

I think I see in Reagan what many Christians saw in him, one of the most religious presidents that we have ever had.

I think that it is obvious that deep internal and private religious faith was the most powerful force in Reagan's' life.

When one starts trying to learn who Reagan really was, they start seeing a man who seems to have always been striving to hear God's voice as he tried to make his decisions about himself, and others, and in his work and careers.

Reagan is unlike many great figures, with him, the deeper you scratch into his personal and inner life, the more you come to admire and respect him.